On Sun, 2017-09-10 at 14:07 -0700, Samuel Sieb wrote:
> On 09/10/2017 07:07 AM, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
> > as I update it every morning using dnf. That's my choice. The reboot
> > generally takes about 30 seconds, unless I'm running a Windows VM in
> > which case I usually try to shut it down properly, which can take a
> > long time. If I were administering a mail and web service with several
> 
> If you're using KVM/QEMU, you don't need to shut down the VM.  It will 
> be paused for the reboot (memory saved) and then resumed when the server 
> comes back up.  It is a very nice feature and I think it's the default 
> now, but obviously you should verify that before trying.  The VM has a 
> higher uptime than the host. :-)

Would that it were so simple :-) The VM is running VFIO passthrough for
a second GPU which I use for gaming. The state of the GPU will not be
saved by freezing the VM, even when a game is not actually running.
Windows doesn't have a "hibernate" feature except for laptops, and
there doesn't appear to be a way of convincing it that the VM is a
laptop (the GPU drivers are a dead giveaway). Thus killing the libvirtd
process is equivalent to a system reset AFAIK.

poc
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